Focus on Flowers

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons may be the most famous, but they weren’t the only ones composed during the Baroque era.

Three years is about the time it takes for plants to settle in and grow in a garden.

Annie Corrigan speaks with farmer and advocate of food security, sustainability, and community development Marcia Veldman.

Dargan reads "Men Die Miserably for Lack" and "I'll See It When I Believe It," and he discusses the communicative possibilities of poetry.

Adversity has taught this gardener to cherish every flower that blooms, no matter what its color or its smell.

Calvocoressi reads from her poem cycle "Circus Fire, 1944," based on the historic Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus Fire in Hartford, Connecticut.

A 2012 Musièpoca recording of religious music of Tomàs Milans i Godayol, performed by the ensemble La Xantria, directed by Pere Lluis Biosca

Wordsworth obviously was as impressed with this versatile plant as we still are today.

Open your mind—as well as your ears—as we listen to music from the distant past alongside related music by living composers.